Calif.’s Sacramento Regional Transit District (RT) will receive a grant from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for $870,000 to add a secondary warning system to increase safety of employees in light rail work zones. With the funds, RT will develop, implement, and test a system providing a three-way communication among workers on the track, train operators, and dispatchers in the central office.
The funding will allow RT to deploy the technology across the entire light rail fleet, which will fully demonstrate its functionality, reliability, and utility on an active light rail system.
